When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

The Goetheanum, built by 61-year-old Philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy is destroyed by fire in Goetheanum, Dornach, Solothurn, Switzerland.

Steiner's Goetheanum is destroyed by arson during the night of New Year's Eve, 31 December 1922 - 1 January 1923.

(+)78 years ago

Friday 31st of December 1937

Actor Anthony Philip Hopkins known for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in the movie ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ is born in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom.

(+)72 years ago

Friday 31st of December 1943

Singer-songwriter John Denver, originally Henry John Deutschendorf is born in Roswell, New Mexico, United States.

(+)72 years ago

Friday 31st of December 1943

Actor Ben Kingsley, originally Krishna Bhanji is born in Snainton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

(+)67 years ago

Friday 31st of December 1948

Singer-songwriter Donna Summer, originally LaDonna Adrian Gaines aka The Queen of Disco is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

(+)56 years ago

Thursday 31st of December 1959

Actor Val Edward Kilmer is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

(+)55 years ago

Saturday 31st of December 1960

Serial killer John Allen Muhammad, originally John Allen Williams aka The Beltway Sniper is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.

Tuula Hoeoek is presumably battered to death by Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey in Rue Laurens, St. Clement, Jersey, United Kingdom.

In July 2013 the case was reopened.

(-)46 years ago

Wednesday 31st of December 1969

Labor leader of the United Mine Workers Joseph Albert Yablonski aka Jock is shot dead in his house by three hitmen hired by a union political opponent at the age of 59 in East Bethlehem Township, Clarksville, Pennsylvania, United States.

Yablonski's wife Margaret and 25-year-old daughter Charlotte were also shot dead. Their bodies were found on 5 January 1970 by Yablonski's son Kenneth.

(-)35 years ago The Medium of the Message was Dead

Wednesday 31st of December 1980

Philosopher Marshall Herbert McLuhan known for “the medium is the message” dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 69 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The fire was set with the intention of scaring tourists away by Héctor Escudero Aponte, José Rivera López and Arnaldo Jiménez Rivera, three disgruntled employees of the hotel who were in the middle of a labor dispute with the owners.

A psychiatric report on Villegas by Dr. Gouriou on 14 January 1957 found that the man was insane, heard strange voices, and had intended to murder the Argentinean dictator Juan Perón but went instead for the less well protected Mona Lisa.

(+)56 years ago

Wednesday 30th of December 1959

Actress and comedian Tracey Ullman, originally Trace is born in Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

(+)49 years ago

Friday 30th of December 1966

Murderer Stanley Allison Baker is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Bundy piled books and files in his bunk bed under a blanket to simulate his sleeping body and slipped into the crawlspace above his cell. He broke through the ceiling into the apartment of the chief jailer who was out for the evening with his wife, changed into street clothes from the jailer's closet and walked out the front door to freedom.

The blaze was started when a pyrotechnic flare was set off during a concert by the rock group 'Callejeros', and ignited foam in the ceiling. Four of the six doors had been wired shut to keep out "people who would not enter without paying".

9 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 30th of December 2006

Detail of a blood painting by Hermann Nitsch in a retrospective exhibition in Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

The train plunged off a poorly constructed bridge. The survivors were led, carried and conveyed on sleds to hotels and private houses in the town, there being no hospital. However, people assisting also stole money and valuables from the survivors and dead, $1500 (about $33000 today). Bridge designer Amasa Stone committed suicide seven years later after experiencing financial difficulties with some foundries he had interests in, suffering from severe ulcers that kept him from sleeping and scorn from the public over the disaster.

(x)125 years ago

Monday 29th of December 1890

Between 175 and 300 Lakota Indians are massacred by the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside in Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, United States.

Rilke suffered ulcerous sores in his mouth, pain troubled his stomach and intestines and he struggled with increasingly low spirits.

(+)82 years ago

Friday 29th of December 1933

Quaker and anti-war protester Norman Morrison is born in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.

(+)79 years ago

Tuesday 29th of December 1936

Actress Mary Tyler Moore known from The Mary Tyler Moore Show is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

(+)77 years ago

Thursday 29th of December 1938

Actor Jon Jonathan Vincent Voight is born in Yonkers, New York, United States.

(x)72 years ago

Wednesday 29th of December 1943

12-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man is charged with burglary and committed to the Lyman School for Boys in Lyman School for Boys, Lyman School Road, Westborough, Massachusetts, United States.

(x)70 years ago

Saturday 29th of December 1945

Augusta Gein dies at the age of 67 of a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving her son 39-year-old Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America's Most Bizarre Murderer all alone on the farm and his fantasies on the loose in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States.

(+)69 years ago

Sunday 29th of December 1946

Singer-songwriter Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is born in Hampstead, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

(x)58 years ago

Sunday 29th of December 1957

The skeletonised remains of 19-year-old Victim of Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer Judy Ann Dull, originally Judith Ann Van Horn Dull are found in a shallow grave in Thousand Palms, Indio, California, United States.

Dull was abducted, raped and strangled on 1 August 1957. Glatman took several photos before and after the murder.

(x)43 years ago

Friday 29th of December 1972

101 die in Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar Flight 401 crash in Area 3A, The Everglades, Florida, United States.

The crash occurred as a result of the entire flight crew becoming preoccupied with a burnt-out landing gear indicator light and failing to notice the autopilot had inadvertently been disconnected. 75 people survived.

(-)29 years ago

Monday 29th of December 1986

Film director Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky dies of lung cancer at the age of 54 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

(-)20 years ago

Friday 29th of December 1995

Actress Lita Grey, originally Lillita Louise MacMurray dies of cancer at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

16 years ago The Eyes had it

Wednesday 29th of December 1999

Late night dinner at my favourite foodstall at the busstop in Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand.

The fire started when a fireworks display created a chain reaction, setting off the fireworks of other nearby vendors. The aftermath created a "wall of fire" that spread for four blocks and raged for several hours.